This is a personal journal documenting my studies in art - mainly just a place to keep notes and to organize my thoughts better than I could in a handwritten journal (you can't do a search in a paper journal, or post live links). My ultimate goal is oil painting, but I want to start with developing my grasp of the basics in drawing.

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

More work on the Tiepolo - still not finished

Some time ago on this blog I tried my hand at an ink/wash drawing done by the elder Tiepolo. I remember using the terms broken down and humbled in the title of that post lol. So far they've done it to me every time - any of the Tiepolos, father or sons. This one is by the son Giovanni Battista, the one I started my Comp 1.1 assignment with was the father Giambatista. The paintings somehow look deceptively simple, but every form is cleverly twisted and foreshortened in subtle ways that make it all damnably difficult to copy compared to anything else I've tried thus far. I'm into hour 4 on this one and no end in sight yet. But I"m also starting to push my accuracy for values, shapes and edges farther than I ever have in the past, so when I finally see the light at the end of this tunnel It'll let me out at a new level.

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Dark Matter - we can't see it, we can't detect it, and yet it needs to be there in order for the universe to behave the way it does. Of course it's only one of many unproven theories, but here's what it means to me -- Sometimes the most important things are those we can't understand or quantify; that which remains mysterious in this modern world dominated by rational materialism.